The FDA does not require disclosure of the addictive properties of Oxycodone and other Opioids, either by the doctors or the warnings accompanying the prescription. This addiction is a rapidly growing epidemic, often leading to death, so immediate action is necessary. A family member was prescribed Oxycodone for pain after surgery and took it unaware of the addictive nature. He is now addicted and unable to stop .

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St. Louis wants Demi Lovato!

The DRC denied the Wizer proposal by Evergreen Group LLC. It is critical that the Council know the concerns of the citizens. Please show your objection to the violation of our City codes by signing our on-line petition and please forward to your friends asking them to do the same. It's quick and easy. Thank you!

Currently, there are no laws in place to guarantee how your child support money is allocated or provide your child with future funds to continue their educational pursuits (college, learning a trade, or workforce development). Many fathers have a very difficult time making ends meet while supporting their child and also trying to financially maintain their own household. In many instances, once the support period ends when the child turns 18 or later (if they continue their educational pursuits) the father is financially unable to contribute further towards their child’s future. Child support typically renders the father unable to save for the future. EKOL has started a petition that is intended to institute a clause/mandate in the child support orders from the court that requires the custodial parent to invest 20% of each monthly child support payment into a trust fund for each child receiving child support. These funds will be released to the child upon successful completion of high school and enrollment in college or towards a trade and/or workforce development program. Please sign the 20% FATHERHOOD PETITION - EKOL to help create a law in your respective state that guarantees that up to 20% of your child support payments will be allocated into an interest bearing “trust fund” for your child’s future. THANK YOU for doing your part to help sustain our families and communities.

I live in the South End of Waterville, an area that is full of low income and struggling families. Adding a trash bag fee only serves to take more of what little money the families in this area have. The Pay as you Throw program should be stopped before it does damage to already poor families.

to stop contractors from taking away our home privacy

As a consumer of all things film and television - especially N.C.-based productions - I am appalled by the new grant program put forth by the N.C. General Assembly to replace the current film incentive program. The film industry provides numerous jobs to people from all different backgrounds. The industry also helps spark tourism revenues at filming locations across the state, helping many local businesses. Please read this story on my blog for more information: http://reflectcw.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-case-for-nc-film.html

If one chooses to participate in a habit which is detrimental to ones health, that is a sad state of affairs, but it is their protected right, as long as it is legal. When people choose to smoke in public, they not only endanger themselves, but non smokers, as well. These non smokers are often our children. Smoking in public should be prohibited.

Due to individuals consuming and selling illegal drugs on the west side of Verbena Park in Denver, Colorado at the covered pavilion which impacts the neighborhood and those wishing to enjoy Verbena Park without encountering such criminal activity. We wish to have the covered pavilion removed and placement of secure fencing installed on the west side of Verbena Park.

You never know what tomorrow might hold, you don't even know if you will see tomorrow. This is major for me, because I might be deploying in 2015 and I will be done with school this fall. My deployment would be before spring commencement, I will lose my opportunity to walk and I have given six years of my life for that one special day. Also others who don't see that date because they where taken from this world.

Senator Mitch McConnell has found himself in hot water yet again—this time surrounding, his now former campaign manager, Jesse Benton. Benton has officially resigned from Sen. McConnell’s campaign, as questions arise around the country, of his involvement in an ongoing federal investigation. Before working for Sen. McConnell, Benton served as political director for the then-Representative Ron Paul. His involvement in that campaign has tied him to a scandal in which thousands of dollars were exchanged for political endorsements ahead of the Iowa caucuses. The McConnell campaign has already done much to distance themselves from Benton. Now reports say that in the recent months, Benton had already been playing a greatly reduced role. Which begs the question: What did Mitch McConnell know about Benton’s involvement in this campaign financial scandal and when did he know it? Sen. McConnell owes Kentuckians an explanation to the shady politics he, and the people around him, are involved in.